RE: Building .so files only.

[Schleicher Ralph (LLI)]

Stephen Torri writes:

> So by patching my libtool I should be able to put the -shared flag in my
> AM_LDFLAGS for the Makefile.am and only get the shared.so file right?

Yes, but it makes sense adding it to CFLAGS, too.

> ! If the @samp{-static} option is given, then only a @samp{.o} file is
> ! built, even if libtool was configured with @samp{--disable-static}.
> 
> This sounds logically confusing. What is the point of --disable-static
> if -static overrides it?

The -static option is for package maintainers, --disable-static is for
users.  The former reads "I really absolutely need a static-only library"
whereas the later reads "I'm not interested in static libraries if I can
avoid it".  Please read Sander Niemeijer's comments in the same thread
<http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2003-08/msg00008.html>, for
more details.

-- 
Ralph